EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT


HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div

 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Romans 8:32

It is triumphant language and irrefutable logic. If He did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for me, then I should have the victorious certainty that He will freely give me all necessary things.

Christ’s death is the supreme token of His love, and He will not withhold from me any lesser token. Having bestowed on me His very kingliest and most divine blessing, His unspeakable gift — it will be strange indeed if He should deny me blessings which are smaller and less costly. That cannot be!

This love gift plunged Him into deepest anguish — and He will not keep from me proofs of His mindfulness and grace which will bring Him no pain at all. God can never suffer again as He suffered when Jesus died in the cheerlessness and shame of the cross. It is easy, it is joyous, for Him to enrich me with all other spiritual blessings.

This bestowment of His mercy was the beginning of my redemption, and He will not deprive me of anything needed to make that redemption perfect and complete. For, though man often commences what he does not finish, perhaps through lack of power or loss of will, God never does. He is sure to consummate His good work.

This gift of Christ includes every other gift! They are all wrapped up in it, as the flower is in the bud, as the fruit is in the blossom. When he is mine — they are mine — unquestionably and inalienably mine!

“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” 2 Corinthians 9:15

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